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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 10h

So for my 'Swan song' tonight.
Goodnight!

McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 10h

Of course the accompanying song.

The Kingston Trio ~ (if you don't know anything about folk songs, especially the lyrics, the various lyrics periodically, it's a wonder, & I think a blessing. Nothing to sniff at at all. Just like all the great myths, ALL of them. Boiled down. These are our myths.)

McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 10h

Like the ever hardening bunker song that has always been played: "Hang down your head, Tom Dooley'.

Tom Dooley, 👇down there can't quite get his head around it.

Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 14h

Ukraine has attacked the Russian import terminal on Crimea again and has successfully isolated the peninsula from being resupplied fuel by rail or ship. Russia's fuel crisis in the occupied territories is especially reaching critical levels as fuel prices skyrocket everywhere else in the country.

Crimea on FIRE! Ukraine Unleashes Hell on Russians

YouTube video by Jake Broe

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 10h

Going out to all the new punk kids. Surprise! Now you're just like him. - 'OMG! He's sooo skinny!'

Him is: Los Ramones, singing their 'shady part of town' hit record: 'I wanna be well'.

Everybody! ~ (it's retro, it's cool, It's me. enjoy.)☺️

RAMONES - I Wanna Be Well (Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Big Chuck Lyric Video

www.youtube.com

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 11h

Just a shout-out to a Ed. You might know him as 'Good boy'. but I'd say he's a pretty well grown man. @edjackson50.bsky.social . Salute!

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 11h

Marsha Blackburn sounds to me like someone who has never toasted a marshmallow correctly. You don't plunged it in the the hottest part of the fire, have it catch fire, & run around screaming 'It's his fault'

Let your opponent have a turn. Learn to roast marsh mellow-ly

You can show your grandkids!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Interesting— @MarshaBlackburn again (nervously?) mentions @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social by name, running against her for Governor as a Dem.

This time it’s to express support for @GovBillLee’s (UNPOPULAR) private school voucher scam, while Green supports public schools: www.facebook.com/share/v/1Frq...

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 11h

No. It is literally trying to swallow us whole right now!

It has distended it's jaws, & there is some kind of tiny teeth kind of conveyor belt trying to suck us in.

Me: Doctor Doctor: I am slowly being taken in to some kind of digestive chamber. What should I do?!!!!

Doctor: Get of of it's mouth.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

If we don’t speak up for the communities that Trump is terrorizing right now, we will be next.

His authoritarianism will come for all of us in the end. https://youtu.be/tkaBlgXR8tY?si=bJcUxXZWMrae4kwx

No One Is Safe From Trump's Authoritarianism

Robert Reich

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 11h

Mussolini was smart. Like JD Vance. Mussolini also wrote things, & DID things. Very much like himself, JD did not. Except bribery.

His best selling book ~ That was his ticket in. Mythology.

Mussolini published BOTH socialist & fascist newspapers, as needed.

Now, we are our own dads/granddads. 🤔☺️⏭️

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Really sad that the Vice President can’t just say the texts are bad and troubling and condemn them and lead for once - and instead feels the need to deflect and run cover for it and signal to young republicans that it’s actually no big deal.

McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 11h

No! As we used to say in the 80s: "No! Not even once." 😱

Too bad there isn't some great way to plastic wrap all these folks up, and tape: NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION on it & furnace 'it'?

'It', as opposed to 'not us'.
⚡⚡👀 "Was ist das?"

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Really sad that the Vice President can’t just say the texts are bad and troubling and condemn them and lead for once - and instead feels the need to deflect and run cover for it and signal to young republicans that it’s actually no big deal.

McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 12h

Again, apropos of nothing, here is my choice for JD Vance's 2028 Presidential Election walk on, walk off music.

The Guess Who - American Woman
~ Everybody!

(how could they? Spoiler alert! It's got the lyrics we never listened to... :/) ☺️

The Guess Who - American Woman (Lyrics)

YouTube video by Mike's Lyric Videos

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 12h

Now for something for everybody.
The Platters singing the 'Great Pretender'. (with lyrics).

When I give my self the 3rd degree, I see myself say, & "I do plea..., Guilty. To whatever you got."

That's one slip-knot. ☺️

The Platters - The Great Pretender - Lyrics

YouTube video by The Platters

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 12h

I hated every Vice Principal I ever had. He was always the force guy. The punishment guy at my public schools.

I am now a Vice Principal.

I can use my little power to make sure this 'experiment' runs until I'm dead.

After I'm dead?

Let's run it until we can say, 'Pres. Scotty, just make it work'

McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 12h

Ok. Hugely critical of dem politics. Especially in NY, city & state. The 'Empire State'. But...

After laying dormant, (spelled door-mat), Hochul has, finally, an attitude. These are the things you say when the ship IS sinking, & you've just figured that part out.

Our ship is in a major storm. 👍👊🌊

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 12h

Ok. Hugely critical of dem politics. Especially in NY, city & state. The 'Empire State'. But...

After laying dormant, (spelled door-mat), Hochul has, finally, an attitude. These are the things you say when the ship IS sinking, & you've just figured that part out.

Our ship is in a major storm. 👍👊🌊

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 12h

Back to our regularly scheduled de-programming...

How do you make 1 women, or man vote against her own best hope for a good life? Much less than 70+ million of them?!

Make 89 million just lay there, & take it passively?

Don't get it. Wasn't in my American mythology. Doesn't make rational sense. 🆘

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Bailing out Bessent’s billionaire friends on Wall Street from their bad investments is much more important.

McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 13h

No comment, except: "Political, or any other violence, is almost never the answer."

At that point of violence, we've already forfeited too much to gain anything, even in victory. Especially when we haven't even tried passive resistance in any significant way.

Try Bartleby: "I prefer not to" ☺️

McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 13h

He swapped 'em for some Texas 'bad hombres' for his ICE Secret Police.

But he did take the time to add that 'all the yellow ones go to Abbott, he's brought 'yellow' back to Texas in a yuge way'.

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 13h

Just click for very dark humor...
de Adder, again, good job!

Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 18h

More cuts at the Pentagon, by @deAdder open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

More cuts at the Pentagon

Pete Hegseth

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 13h

Nothing says 'love' like pavers...

"The practical gift that every women in your like deserves"

Give them to your wives & kids, 2 if needed. Make Feb 14, 2026, the day your garbage cans can sit on 'love' instead of dirt, with grass, & flowers & stuff...

"The gift that isn't 'given' away"

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks @clorindawelling.bsky.social !

Clorinda Welling @clorindawelling.bsky.social · 13h

snoopy is sitting at a table and making a heart with his hand .

ALT: snoopy is sitting at a table and making a heart with his hand .

media.tenor.com

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 14h

[ 🚸Warning: 7th Grade Humor Zone ]

A Taco Tuesday funny.

(Note: 2nd panel optional. I told him it was a 'couplet' like Shakespeare, but in singular form. But my '8th grade' editor insisted on cutting it - like he knows everything...)
☺️

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 15h

A little math. The US lost 58,220 Americans in Vietnam & it damned near tore our country apart.

Russia has already lost 1,120,000. That's over 20 Vietnams. They are losing +/- 1,000 a day, every day & still no talk of withdrawal. They are reusing to go back 1 step. Much less than the 2014 borders.🤔

NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 19h

Putin was supposed to win the war in a week, now he's dragging into the fourth year, said Trump. He added he’s disappointed by the slow pace of ending the war despite his "good relationship" with Putin.

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 15h

When sharp, pointed criticism is needed, we've got “mealy-mouthed” dems like this who prefer to sit on the Congress steps & get their pictures taken - like they are actually doing something.

Go to an ICE facility. Get arrested. Lead a march, not just comment about it. Publicity stunts don't cut it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Senator @corybooker.com declines to call Netanyahu a “war criminal”

(And @mizzwelch.bsky.social @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social @pumpspumpspumps.bsky.social call him out for it)

McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 15h

Hear! Hear! My kind of 'Nasty Woman!'.

We as voters are going to need to separate the wheat from the chaff. She does it here deliciously & harshly.

We want, we need an OPPOSITION PARTY. Not a bunch of lug nuts trying to keep their own sweet deals going.

Weak tea when strong coffee is needed.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

“That is such bullshit”

@mizzwelch.bsky.social isn’t having it when @corybooker.com tries to blame Democratic failures to stand up to Trump (including his own vote for Kushner’s dad) on a “circular firing squad”

Full @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social ep: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc?...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

ZOHRAN: “We are an existential threat to billionaires who think their money can buy our democracy.” 🇺🇸

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McKMango - 🔵 @mckmango.bsky.social · 16h

Sorry. Terrible explanation. Everything he said is true, but who could listen to it?

Demographics in the US were bad. Tossing producing & consuming people out of the US makes it worse.

It will lead to a smaller tax base, & higher labor costs which will be an inflation & debt driver.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Powell on Trump's immigration policies: "Stronger policy than most people had expected. We've seen a very sharp decline in growth of the labor force and in and people entering the country ... new people that come into the workforce create supply but they also create their own demand."

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